Outside our small safe place flies Mystery... A snake beneath the forest floor, a whisper: Melusine

I can't think of anything worse than cleaning my brother's toilet.  As I attacked the mess, I couldn't help but remember a story my mother used to tell about how my brother peed on me shortly after he was born.  That set things to come: my brother making messes for me to clean.  He even once threw up on me after I saved him from an all night drunk when he was 16.  Ah, all part of the duty of being a protective older sister...

 

He's lucky to have me as his sister, however there are times when I wish he'd come over to clean my apartment for a change!

 

Today we visit our mother's social worker.  It's going to be weird going over her funeral plans while she is alive.  I'm okay with it, but I think Mark has a harder time dealing with it.  I just want my mom to be happy.  She's been having panic attacks in her sleep.  I have to find some ways to help her relax. 

I almost forgot to add these pix!  Here is Lola in the window.  Even though she is a mannequin head, she takes on a life-like appearance with her eyes directed upwards, as if she is really watching the rain storm roll in.

It's that time of year again, when the sky turns cloudy with rain and rumbles with thunder.
Only to make and keep the green again!
Storms make me nervous, but I will deal with the rain better than the snow.
Go here to check out all the new mannequin heads I decorated!
Check out Lola and her pal, Cinnamon, all dressed up.
More fun with Mannequin heads!
The old mannequin heads all sitting pretty on a glass shelf.
All the NAKED HEADS!
Naked Heads close up!
Okay, I'm done adding links to all the "head" themed pictures. 

Fifi-Michelle wears a pink ribbon band hat with a purple sheer silk scarf decked with sequins and beads.

Nora sports a recycled silk sari head scarf with straw matt visor.  She sits between two other as-yet-unnamed other mannequin heads.  To her right is a head with Moroccan bellydance headdress and to her left is another head with a blue beaded headdress.

Fifi-Michelle on the shelf with the other unnamed "heads": on the left one wears a recycled silk hat, the other on the right wears a brightly colored Tam.

Close-up of the "dreamer" head (eyes closed). 

Then we have a close-up of the "green eye shadow" head wearing the Tam.

And, just in case you didn't get to check them out earlier, there are other unnamed heads at Dala's store:
The one wearing the gold-beaded headdress and green chin scarf looks rather medieval, doesn't she?
The next head is wearing the same gold coin bellydance headdress that I wear in my current profile photo.
The last photo shows off a lovely white metal headdress with mirrors.  That head was "rescued" recently -- she was about to get thrown into the garbage because she was falling apart and her features had faded.  I couldn't let that happen.  So I took a bit of white-out and remade her face.  She now winks out of her sleep and two hearts on her left cheek hide where once was an accidental scratch in her styrofoam! How some of the mannequins looked before their make-overs. They now all have at least one eye open!

Feel free to help me name the others.  Hope you have a happy day.

I fed my mother dinner at the nursing home.  It's weird to be the one to feed her now.  It is karma.  She used to do the same for me when I was little. We watched "Water Horse: Legend of the Deep" and were amused by the lil' Loch Ness Monster's antics.  The movie was great and renewed my interest in mythic beasts again (I was obsessed with the Loch Ness Monster when I was 9/10 years old).  Tomorrow is a brother and sister day; me and Mark are going shopping in Appleton or, as I like to call it "hunting for treasure!"  We each are going to find our Mom something weird or unique (hence the "treasure" part).  Of course we're also hunting for gifts for each other. 

 

It's good to get in touch with family every now and then.  Never know how long we have with each other. 

 

I'm trying to convince my brother to watch Flight of the Conchords tonight.  Nothing like great novelty folk music to keep the spirits happy.  The Lord of the Rings and David Bowie parodies are to die for!  *sigh* I love Bret and Jemaine.  They rock my world.  I'm also convinced they'll rock yours, too. 

 

Yep, mothers out there, happy day!  Treat yourselves to the movie and tv series I talked about above.  Nothing like a great fantasy to keep your reality in check, once the little ones are asleep, that is...

Lola and Cinnamon (thanks for the names, everyone!) are now all dressed up and standing pretty in the store window.